Precision Inertial Navigation & Positioning On an Integrated Tesseract (PINPOINT)
Summary
DARPA is seeking proposals to develop revolutionary inertial navigation and positioning sensors for tactical and unmanned missions under the Precision Inertial Navigation & Positioning On an Integrated Tesseract (PINPOINT) program. The effort focuses on breakthrough sensor architectures—such as electromagnetically levitated proof masses, non‑linear resonators, and high‑velocity tethered microsystems—and their real‑time adaptive control, aiming to overcome the long‑standing performance limits of MEMS IMUs.